The Kukai - a haiku contest, where each person submits a haiku, and then, becomes a judge. When all the poems are compiled in a list, the contestants comment, vote, and give scores to poems of their choice. One cannot comment on, nor vote for one’s own poem. At the end of the voting process winners emerge, the selection based on votes by the kukai’s contestants.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Happy Holidays 2012-13

Dear haiku friends
Kukai No 39 was the last for this year 2012. We rest in November and December.

I have been prompted several times over this year for a Poets Choice Kukai; so what i will do is collect the first 100 winners from when our kukai started and prepare a list for Poets Choice; however, this kukai will happen in 2013 .

We will begin the year 2013 with a Poets Choice Kukai; after which, we will continue with our monthly themes

6 comments:

May I suggest that for the poets' choice kukai, the rule that 3 points is the maximum one may assign to a single poem be followed? This rule is otherwise common (universal?) in kukai. In a few instances, results of the CKK have been distorted by one person assigning 6 points to one poem; here in the US, we call that stuffing the ballot box.